Legal
The broad California court sequence, common legal topics, and decisions that may need attention.
For professional referral partners
A clear educational starting point you can share.
Divorce Options® is a free, live online workshop from Sacramento Collaborative Divorce Group. It helps people understand four common divorce processes through legal, financial, and mental-health perspectives before they are asked to choose a process or professional.
Public education resource · California-focused
- Legal
- Financial
- Mental health
- Mediation
- Community support
A smaller, safer referral
Be helpful without becoming the divorce-process explainer.
Someone may ask where to start before they know which questions belong with an attorney, financial professional, mental-health professional, mediator, or another source of support.
Sharing Divorce Options® does not require you to recommend Do-It-Yourself, mediation, collaborative divorce, traditional representation (litigation), or any particular professional. The invitation is to learn what the options are—not to select one during the workshop.
What people can expect
Three professional perspectives. Four divorce processes.
The workshop is designed for people considering separation or divorce, as well as people who have already begun. It is a balanced educational presentation—not a recommendation for one process.
Presented by
Three professional perspectives
Financial
Financial information, income, assets, debts, support, taxes, budgets, and planning for future resources.
Mental health
Psychological, emotional, parenting, communication, and family-transition considerations.
Compared neutrally
Four divorce process options
Do-It-Yourself
The spouses negotiate directly with little or no professional assistance.
Mediation
One or more neutral professionals help the spouses work toward their own agreements.
Collaborative Divorce
The spouses make decisions with support from an interdisciplinary professional team outside court.
Traditional Representation
Often called litigation: each spouse may have an advocate, and the court can decide unresolved issues.
The workshop provides
A shared educational map.
- General, California-focused process information
- Legal, financial, and mental-health perspectives in one session
- Questions participants can take to qualified professionals
- A neutral comparison of four common process options
The workshop does not provide
Individual advice or emergency support.
- Legal, financial, tax, or mental-health advice
- A recommendation for a process or professional
- Safety planning, crisis response, or emergency assistance
- A professional-client relationship of any kind
When it may be useful
An early referral, before someone needs to choose a path.
The workshop can be a practical next step when a person is seeking orientation and the referring professional would like to avoid overstating what any single divorce process can do.
- “I may be separating. Where do I begin?”
- “What kinds of professional help are available?”
- “How are mediation and collaborative divorce organized?”
- “What questions should I ask before deciding what comes next?”
One-page partner kit
Keep it on hand. Share it when the timing is appropriate.
The PDF includes a workshop overview, client-ready language, current access, and the educational and safety boundaries in one printable page.
Download the referral-partner kitOptional professional updates
Keep current dates and client-ready language close at hand.
Receive the partner kit by email, a brief orientation to what Divorce Options® covers, and occasional updates when workshop dates or reviewed referral resources change.
- A separate referral-partner email list
- Current workshop and referral information
- No consumer workbook sequence
The partner kit remains freely available above. Subscribing is optional.
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